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Al-Muftakhira

Village in Safad, Mandatory Palestine
Al-Muftakhira
Village
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Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°09′31′′N 35°38′23′′E / 33.15861°N 35.63972°E / 33.15861; 35.63972
Palestine grid 209/284
Geopolitical entity Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict Safad
Date of depopulationMay 16, 1948[3]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
350[1] [2]
Cause(s) of depopulationFear of being caught up in the fighting
Current LocalitiesShamir, Israel [4]

Al-Muftakhira was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated in the 1948 War on May 16, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion during Operation Yiftach. It was located 25.5 km northeast of Safad.

In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 350.[1] [2]

References

  1. ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
  2. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70 Archived 2015年09月24日 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #16. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  4. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p.478

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